After we’ll meet the DC Universe’s Batman in The Courageous and the Daring stays up within the air, however one of many Caped Crusader’s villains has his personal upcoming DC film arriving in just a little below a yr. Clayface started filming on the finish of August, with Tom Rhys Harries taking part in the titular character and The Social Community’s Max Minghella being on of his co-stars. Minghella has now shared his constructive phrases about becoming a member of “the world of Gotham” and the attention-grabbing method he’s linked to one of many behind-the-scenes abilities.
Minghella is making the press rounds speaking about Shell, the 2025 film he directed and options his The Handmaid’s Story co-star Elisabeth Moss. However whereas chatting with ComicBookMovie’s Josh Wilding concerning the physique horror flick, Minghella spent a while discussing his expertise on Clayface, beginning with the next:
I am actually having fun with engaged on the film. It is a great assortment of individuals making it. James Watkins is directing it. I have been a fan of his eternally. He did a movie referred to as Eden Lake, and that was a film that basically affected me for fairly some time after I first noticed it. Hossein Amini is doing a move on the script, who I truly produced a film with and directed a few years in the past. We’ve got a really private connection.
It’s cool that Max Minghella already has a previous reference to Hossein Amini, who was tapped to tweaks to the Clayface script. The DC film originated from the thoughts of horror heavyweight Mike Flanagan, who pitched Clayface again in March 2023. Nonetheless, as a result of Flanagan’s been busy engaged on the Carrie miniseries and The Exorcist reboot, that resulted in Amini being tapped for sharpening the script and Converse No Evil’s James Watkins being employed to direct.
Max Minghella’s variety phrases didn’t finish there, as he talked about yet another one who dealing with a key facet of the Clayface inventive course of off-camera, saying:
Rob Hardy is capturing it, and he is a unprecedented cinematographer who I’ve lengthy admired. To get to play with these wonderful folks on the planet of Gotham may be very enjoyable.
This upcoming superhero film will mark Clayface’s live-action theatrical debut, though the character has beforehand been depicted on live-action TV reveals like Birds of Prey, Gotham and Pennyworth. Tom Rhys Harries is taking part in the Matt Hagen incarnation, who on this continuity is an actor that will get his face disfigured by a gangster. Determined to repair it, Hagen turns to a “fringe” scientist, performed by Naomi Ackie, who turns his physique into clay. Max Minghella is taking part in a Gotham Metropolis police detective who’s courting Jackie’s character, and Eddie Marsan has additionally been forged in an undisclosed position.
Clayface arrives in theaters on September 11, 2026, just a little over two months after the discharge of Supergirl. Within the meantime, you’re welcome to revisit Max Minghella’s work on The Handmaid’s Story together with your Hulu subscription, or take a look at Shell beginning on October 3.